On 7 July, while the Emperor and Empress of Japan were visiting Canada, Nigel Lockyer, the director of TRIUMF, gave a lecture at the Canada – Japan Particle Accelerator Science Symposium at the Embassy of Canada in Tokyo, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Canada. Today, Canada and Japan are […]
Observe, explore and re-create the universe
“Uchu (宇宙)” is the Japanese word that can be translated as either “universe” or “space.” The Advanced Accelerator Association Promoting Science and Technology (AAA) in Japan has been on tour with their symposium series on “uchu” – observing by telescope, exploring by spacecraft and re-creating by accelerator – and the second event was just held […]
New website open! – One-stop shopping on Asian accelerator information
A new website called Asian Accelerator Plaza (AAP) was officially launched on 27 May, and is aimed to be a comprehensive reference tool for anybody who is interested in Asian accelerator-related activities. This website was developed by collaboration among several Asian accelerator science research institutes, and is being operated in four languages: traditional and simplified […]
New cavity production facility for future industrialisation
Director’s Corner 30 April 2009 Kaoru Yokoya New cavity production facility for future industrialisation Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Kaoru Yokoya, Global Design Effort Asian Regional Director. As most of you may know, I have just managed to complete my duty as a chairman of the TILC09 Local Organising Committee last week, and […]
ILC technology gets awarded
On 23 March, the 2008 Nishikawa Award Ceremony was held in Tokyo, and awards were given to three ILC scientists: Yoshihisa Iwashita (Kyoto University), Hitoshi Hayano (KEK) and Yujiro Tajima (Toshiba Co., Ltd). Nishikawa Award commemorates a deed of Tetsuji Nishikawa, former KEK Director General, and honours the achievements of highly creative, internationally recognised, R&D […]
Collaboration towards the realisation of the ILC
On 26 February, in the middle of an important Diet discussion (equivalent to members of congress in Japan) on the supplemental bill, the Advanced Accelerator Association Promoting Science and Technology (AAA) held a symposium entitled “Departing from Japan to Universe – Toward the realisation of International Linear Collider (ILC)” in Akasaka, central region of Tokyo […]
Physics and detectors at TILC09
Research Director’s Report19 March 2009 Hitoshi Yamamoto Physics and detectors at TILC09This month’s Research Director’s Report was written by Hitoshi Yamamoto, co-chair of the Worldwide Study and regional detector contact for Asia.I am writing this column for the first time as one of the three regional contacts who serve under the ILC research director Sakue […]
From four to six quarks in a month and a half
An interview with Toshihide Maskawa, Nobel laureate of Physics
Toshihide Maskawa is one of the most popular public figures in Japan at the moment. He has charmed many Japanese people with his humour and pure passion for the science that he showed at the press conference after he won the 2008 Nobel prize in physics, together with Yoichiro Nambu, professor emeritus at Chicago University, […]
Understanding something new — interview with Makoto Kobayashi
This interview was originally done for November issue of the “ILC Tsushin”, the Japanese newsletter for non-scientific readers. It has been hectic days for Makoto Kobayashi, Professor emeritus at KEK, since 7 October, the announcement of 2008 Nobel Prize in physics. Now that one month has passed, Kobayashi finally gets to settle down a little […]
2008 Nobel Prize goes to particle physics
Today's issue features a guest essay by James Wells, a theorist working at CERN who specialises in physics beyond the Standard Model.
Much of the history of particle physics has been devoted almost exclusively to finding out what our bodies are made of. We first learned about protons and electrons and neutrons because they constitute the matter that makes up our bodies, and we learned of photons (light) because it interacts with our bodies when we see. […]